Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
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Joined May 2017
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could you imagine going to checkout and the cashier is just sitting there with a foxgirl wallpaper on the POS terminal
just a weird thought. anyway,
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vows!
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, but the sphinx of black quartz doesn't judge it notable.
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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My Mom built an analog ad blocker for her favorite tablet game and while I cannot stop laughing, I'm also hella proud of her. Go Mom! Stick it to the man!
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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The reply to this is a fair point: downgrade to a pre-5.6.0 version regardless. It's too soon to know if this exploit path is the only one present.
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@arielmt Honestly, i'd say it's better to downgrade regardless.
Basically, if you have xz-5.6.0 or xz-5.6.1 installed on Linux, downgrade to an earlier version of xz.
If you use an older version of xz, don't use Linux, or somehow do use Linux *without* systemd, you should be fine.
I love how the xz backdoor hinges on Poettering's Daemon in order to work.
The Register
Headline: "Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library"
Byline: "Red Hat in all caps says STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES"
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/29/malicious_backdoor_xz/
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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im safe from the xz backdoor because the letters x and z on my keyboard are airgapped by the french keyboard layout
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"A world without trans people has never existed and never will"
Poster spotted in Olympia, WA
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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this rules, actually. this is direct action https://wandering.shop/@johnpettigrew/112172716984340737
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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For those of you who use LLMs to help you code, here's a warning: these tools have been shown to hallucinate packages in a way that allows an attacker to poison your application. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/ #ai #gpt #chatgpt #security
TIL hard drives can fail while passing all SMART tests, even extended tests.
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i may have found previously undocumented clone mac roms
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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>called Open AI
>look inside
>proprietary
> :LooksInsideCat:
>look inside
>proprietary
> :LooksInsideCat:
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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it should be illegal to name proprietary software "open[whatever]"
Ariel Millennium Thornton
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Not mine and found too far from its origin for me to know who to credit, but too good not to share
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Things that are indistinguishable from magic:
- Technology that’s advanced enough
- Code that’s bad enough
- Pronouns
- she
- Species
- feline/phoenix (shifts at will between them)
- Fairy wand currently on
- GEOS programming guide
- Website
- https://thornton2.com/ArielMT
Admin
✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
✨ Follow requests welcome. ✨
✨ ✨
Joined May 2017
